Jardins de France, Volumes 13(73) : 207-208 (Sept 1833)
Bengale-Bourbon-Desprez, Me. Desprez, Non moins vigoureux que les précédens [Noisette d'Andrezelle]: feuillage vert-pourpre passant au vert-glauque très foncé; fleurs trés pleines, bien ouvertes, de 3 pouces de diamètre, d'une facture élégante, d'abord rose vif, ensuite rose violacé, et enfin lilas; de sorte que, comme les fleurs sont nombreuses, on en voit en même temps de quatre nuances différentes en parfait état: celle espèce a réuni aussi les suffrages des nombreux amateurs qui l'ont visitée.

The Rose Amateur’s Guide (1840) p. 121
Thomas Rivers

Madame Desprez: this fine and robust rose has never yet bloomed so beautifully in this country as during this autumn (1837): its large clusters of very double flowers have indeed been superb. Monsieur Desprez, a distinguished French rose amateur, raised it from seed about five years since. It is, most probably, a little hybridised with the Noisette Rose, as it blooms in larger clusters than any other Bourbon Rose.

The Gardeners' Chronicle Feb. 18, 1843, p. 100
THE ROSE GARDEN.—No. IV.
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The group next in interest to the foregoing is that which has Madame Desprez as its type. This fine robust Rose is a hybrid between the Bourbon and Noisette; from the latter it derives its large corymbs of flowers. The varieties of this section do not harmonise with other Bourbons in grouping; they form fine pillar Roses and admirable standards; in which respect they surpass all others in the family of Bourbons, uniting well with the stock, and annually increasing in beauty. In very rich soil, shoots of too great luxuriance will often make their appearance as standards, so as to destroy the proportions of the plant. These should be shortened as soon as they have made about half their growth; they will then produce numerous smaller flowering stems. The most remarkable and beautiful varieties of this group are—Triomphe de Plantier, Splendens, Crimson, Madame Desprez, Cardinal Fesch, Desgaches, Julie de Joynes, Comtesse de Colbert, Thiaffait, Comice de Seine et Maine, Paul Joseph, and a new white Bourbon, raised at Lyons, called Madame Lacharme. The latter may with justice be called "White Madame Desprez," as it has precisely the habit of that Rose; its flowers are described as "pure white." For pillars, as standards, and for planting in beds, with their shoots supported by a stake, these magnificent autumnal Roses may be safely recommended to the notice of the Amateur.